or that a clever woman became a lawgiver at Athens, than that a goddess sprang, full grown and armed, from the cleft skull of Jupiter?
For example, the address to the poets: 'Best of strangers, we also are poets of the best and noblest tragedy; for our whole state is an imitation of the best and noblest life, which we affirm to be indeed the very truth of tragedy.' Or again, the sight of young men and maidens in friendly intercourse with one another, suggesting the dangers to which youth is liable from the violence of passion; or the eloquent denunciation of unnatural lusts in the same passage; or the charming thought that the best legislator 'orders war for the sake of peace and not peace for the sake of war;' or the pleasant allusion, 'O Athenian—inhabitant of Attica, I will not say, for you seem to me worthy to be named after the Goddess Athene because you go back to first principles;' or the pithy saying, 'Many a victory has been and will be suicidal to the victors, but education is never suicidal;' or the fine expression that 'the walls of a city should be allowed to sleep in the earth, and that we should not attempt to disinter them;' or the remark that 'God is the measure of all things in a sense far higher than any man can be;' or that 'a man should be from the first a partaker of the truth, that he may live a true man as long as possible;' or the principle repeatedly laid down, that 'the sins of the fathers are not to be visited on the children;' or the description of the funeral rites of those priestly sages who depart in innocence; or the noble sentiment, that we should do more justice to slaves than to equals; or the curious observation, founded, perhaps, on his own experience, that there are a few 'divine men in every state however corrupt, whose conversation is of inestimable value;' or the acute remark, that public opinion is to be respected, because the judgments of mankind about virtue are better than their practice; or the deep religious and also modern feeling which pervades the tenth book (whatever may be thought of the arguments); the sense of the duty of living as a part of a whole, and in dependence on the will of God, who takes care of the least things as well as the greatest; and the picture of parents praying for their children—not as we may say, slightly altering the words of Plato, as if there were no truth or reality in the Gentile religions, but as if there were the greatest—are very striking to us.
'There you come to first principles, like a true votary of the goddess Athene; and this is all the better, for you will the sooner recognize the truth of what I am saying—that all men everywhere are the enemies of all, and each individual of every other and of himself; and, further, that there is a victory and defeat—the best and the worst—which each man sustains, not at the hands of another, but of himself.' And does this extend to states and villages as well as to individuals?
But the particular enactments must be the work of God or of some God-inspired man, as in Egypt their ancient chants are said to be the composition of the goddess Isis.
In our dances imitations of war should be practised, as in the dances of the Curetes in Crete and of the Dioscuri at Sparta, or as in the dances in complete armour which were taught us Athenians by the goddess Athene.
or shall they follow the Spartan custom, which is between the two?—there the maidens share in gymnastic exercises and in music; and the grown women, no longer engaged in spinning, weave the web of life, although they are not skilled in archery, like the Amazons, nor can they imitate our warrior goddess and carry shield or spear, even in the extremity of their country's need.
The 'Goddess Harmonia' plays a great part in Plato's ideas of education.
These are the primary movements, and they receive the secondary movements of bodies, and guide all things to increase and diminution, separation and union, and to all the qualities which accompany them—cold, hot, heavy, light, hard, soft, white, black, sweet, bitter; these and other such qualities the soul, herself a goddess, uses, when truly receiving the divine mind she leads all things rightly to their happiness; but under the impulse of folly she works out an opposite result.
If a man leave anywhere anything great or small, intentionally or unintentionally, let him who may find the property deem the deposit sacred to the Goddess of ways.
In almost every culture I study there is a goddess at the center: a mother of the gods, a lady of heaven, a mistress of the waters or the earth.
On Ishtar, Inanna, Astarte, and Aphrodite I compare four goddesses who are not identical but overlap as goddesses of love, fertility and war.
In Oahspe the picture turns darker, and on Ashtaroth, a powerful false goddess she is one of the beings who demanded worship in the lower heavens.
On The Goddess Isis Isis is the wife and sister of Osiris and the mother of Horus, a goddess of great magical power and the model of the mother.
On Hathor the Egyptian goddess of love, music and motherhood appears as a cow that is the sky itself, or as a woman with the sun disk between cow horns.
On Cybele and her consort Attis the Phrygian Matar Kubileya is a mountain goddess of the fertile earth and wild nature.
On Mari, Supreme Deity the Basques have a single dominant goddess of nature, weather and justice who lives in mountains and caves and commands storms and fire.
On Mokosh the Slavic goddess of earth, moisture and fertility protects women and their work of spinning and weaving.
On Persephone the daughter of Demeter carries the goddess down into the underworld and back each year, Demeter has her own page, as do Artemis and the Norse Freyja.
The Goddess Isis
For every page I tagged with Goddess, see the Goddess tag archive.
This scroll was hidden at the temple of the goddess sometime before the 10th century.
A goddess called Wisdom speaks from a cloud.
Among them were Hercules, Pallas Athena, who was a High Priestess in the Temple of Truth, and Lady Portia, known as the Goddess of Justice.
May the white light and pearlescent energy of dear Sarah, the goddess of peace, be with you.
And the reason that it's important to him is because it's connected to the planet Venus and it's connected to the goddess.
The lifegivers are women and that is where this association with the Fibonacci sequence, the five-pointed star is with the goddess in the heavens.
The reason they use them is because these numbers are sacred and they're designed to instill protection and the grace and the assistance of the great goddess in the heavens by honoring her by using these sacred numbers.
It's honoring the great goddess.
Now to me this is his ode to the goddess to the constellation of Virgo i.e., the goddess.
Who would use that in their personal sigla if not only to honor the great goddess?
Of course, 13 is the number of the goddess—the cycles of the moon.
And of course you mentioned the moon goddess.
So that’s the number of the goddess.
So the goddess is important too, and she’s mentioned here—Asher, called Wisdom.
This scroll was hidden at the temple of the goddess sometime before the 10th century.
Then Jamali unto the Edomites: “The goddess Wisdom has commanded us, and we have obeyed, but we set not foot into Edom.”
The voice of Wisdom cried out from the cloud: “These are the people of the Lord, and I am their goddess.
This is very likely we’re talking about extraterrestrials and we’re talking about a goddess on an equal plane with my Lord.
Nearby stands a small fountain whose symbolic carving—female form with stars at the breasts and navel, water flowing from the center—echoes the hidden goddess veneration found at other Templar sites, including the famous fountain at Tomar.
All names for God (e.g., God, Goddess, Allah, Jehovah, I Am That I Am) represent different archetypal perspectives of the same source—all that is.
Many of the tribes of Judah and Ephraim spurn us, calling us Samaritans, saying our bloodline is tainted and our worship of the Goddess is blasphemous.
Ashtaroth appears as a powerful false goddess in Oahspe, allied with Baal after the main confederacy of Anuhasaj, Osiris, Te-in, and Sudga.
Worshiped as a mother goddess and protector, she played a crucial role in the Canaanite pantheon.
Ashira's worship extended to ancient Egypt, where she was identified with the goddess Qetesh, known as the Queen of Heaven and Mistress of the Gods.
Ancient Greeks viewed Hera as a true goddess.
All names for God (e.g., God, Goddess, Allah, Jehovah, I Am That I Am) represent different archetypal perspectives of the same source—all that is.
"And then the goddess Wisdom spoke, and with her hands outstretched she poured the benedictions of the Holy Breath upon the rulers of Aquarius.
In his manuscript entitled "The Cusp of the Ages," a part of which we have already reproduced in this Introduction, we find the following copy of the Commission, which Levi received from Visel, the Goddess of Wisdom, or the Holy Breath.
NASA's Juno mission is a spacecraft orbiting Jupiter (named after the Roman goddess Juno, wife of Jupiter), not a planet.
Goddess Incalithlon – A divine figure associated with the temple of the same name. The goddess materializes in the temple, providing spiritual guidance and reinforcing the religious beliefs of the Poseidii.
All Atlantean women venerated the goddess “Atalante” because she had been known as their protectoress since ancient times.
The goddess Sati and her six daughters come from a novel, not from a historical source.
When they had sprinkled their faces and clothes with its water, they turned their steps to the temple of the sacred goddess, its gables yellow with foul moss, its altars without fire.
The goddess was moved, and uttered oracular speech:
Pyrrha breaks the silence first, refusing to obey the goddess’s command.
They descend, veil their heads, unfasten their robes, and throw the stones behind them as the goddess has asked.
Pietas, translated as Piety in the quote from Ovid's Metamorphoses (Book 1, line 149), represents a core Roman virtue personified as a goddess.
A temple to Pietas stood in Rome from 181 BC, and the goddess was depicted as a woman performing offerings.
Astraea, described as the virgin in the quote (Book 1, line 150), is the goddess of justice, innocence, and purity, equivalent to the Greek Dike.
The priest claims a goddess founded Athens 9,000 years ago and Egypt 8,000 years ago, post-cataclysm.